Lansing was the representative for New York’s 23rd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1873 to 1875.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 22nd congressional district as a Republican from 1871 to 1873; and the representative for New York’s 22nd congressional district as a Republican from 1861 to 1863.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jul 1861 to Mar 1875, Lansing missed 602 of 1,629 roll call votes, which is 37.0%. This is much worse than the median of 22.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1875. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
